The relatively poor economic performance of the St. Louis metropolitan area is alleged to have had important consequences for local employment opportunities. Since it is generally thought that the area’s depressed economy was due to the slump in automobile production, many commentators are pinning their pr-ojections for a recovery in the labor market on the current expansion in the area’s auto ...

From Part I of the Ministry of Health's Report for the year ended 31st December 1954, we learn that since the initiation of the National Health Service in 1948, the percentage of the total capital expenditure on Hospitals allocated to those providing for mental illness and mental deficiency was 16%; 53.2% was spent on general and 9% on children's hospitals with from 4.8% to 0.5% on all the othe...

The arterial switch operation, also called the Jatene procedure, is an operation in which surgeons redirect the flow of blood through abnormal hearts. In 1975, Adib Jatene conducted the first successful arterial switch operation on a human infant. The arterial switch operation corrects a condition called transposition of the great arteries, abbreviated TGA, also called transposition of the grea...